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mswphdtoday at 6:27 PM0 repliesview on HN

It's worth noting that the above assumes that grover's is optimal for symmetric crypto. There are not that many quantum attacks against symmetric crypto that are better than grover's, so in some sense this is justified. But there are some attacks for particular constructions

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.02836

So there is a risk that there are even more improved attacks that people aren't looking for due to the conventional wisdom that grover's is the best you can do for symmetric crypto. Hopefully this risk doesn't end up materializing.